Nation: A Stillness in Cambridge

For several weeks in June and July the town of Cambridge on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland was the nation's most violent arena of racial
conflict. Far worse violence was forestalled in Cam bridge only because
National Guardsmen occupied the town and put it under martial law. When
the Guardsmen withdrew for a few days in early July, disorder quickly
erupted again.

Last week racial peace came to Cambridge, at least temporarily. At the
urging of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, white and Negro leaders
sat down together at the Justice Department in Washington and, in eight
hours of negotiation, worked out...